Phil Neville: Marcus Rashford 'a £150m player like Mbappe or Dembele'

Rashford, 19, scored twice in Manchester United’s 4-1 win over Burton Albion in the third round of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night, taking his tally for the club to 24 goals since his debut in February 2016.

The forward was named on the longlist for the Golden Boy award this week, with Dembele, who joined Barcelona for an initial £97m this summer, and Mbappe, who will make his move to PSG permanent for £166m next summer, also among the contenders.

Rashford may not have been the subject of two of the three biggest transfers in football history, but Neville believes he deserves to be considered on the same level as the two French superstars in the making.

"Everybody praises Ousmane Dembele and Kylian Mbappe but nobody talks about Rashford in this country," Neville told Sky Sports after the Burton match.

"Because he's English we just say 'he plays on the left wing, he's OK'. He is up there with Dembele and Mbappe, who also play on either wing. People say you have to play Rashford as a centre-forward but you can play him anywhere because he is good enough.

"He broke in under Louis van Gaal and set the world on fire, in his second season under Jose Mourinho everyone thought he wouldn't play but he did in all the big games. Now he is adding goals to his game and he can be absolutely world class."